Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$160k - $270k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and ship core infrastructure for query execution, graph storage, and distributed systems.
  • Make architecture decisions with long-term product impact alongside the founding team.
  • Contribute to benchmark and research work that defines the category.
  • Participate in architecture reviews and navigate difficult technical trade-offs with production consequences.
  • Help raise the technical ceiling as the team grows.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of relevant engineering experience and strong computer science fundamentals.
  • Proficiency in Rust or Go and hands-on experience building distributed systems.
  • Production experience designing and shipping core infrastructure such as query engines, storage layers, or graph internals.
  • Ability to own large, ambiguous problems and contribute to design documents and architecture decisions.
  • Track record of shipping production systems under real load.
  • Preferred: experience building or scaling databases or storage infrastructure, open-source systems-level contributions, or prior founding-engineer or early-stage infrastructure experience.

Benefits

  • Learning budget, flexible paid time off, wellness perks, and meaningful equity are included.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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